Wireless Broadband Access Media

Broadband wireless access is increasingly an exciting option, especially because cable modems and DSL aren't available as easily or as widely as we would like. Broadband wireless access provides the opportunity to make use of Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS), Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Services (MMDS), Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS), Free Space Optics, and various unlicensed bands, so wireless increasingly offers more options that can operate in a wider range of footprints.

More than 50 million wireless local loops were deployed globally by the end of 1999, and it is likely that within the next couple years, more than half of the new fixed phone lines installed worldwide each year will be ...

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